![]() ![]() ‘I was friends with a lot of very academically clever folks. I mean it’s incredibly hard to get into acting as a working-class person.’ĭyslexia has also been a challenge. But Isis also deploys the light comic touch seen in much of the 24-year-old’s previous work, such as the movie Catherine Called Birdy, in which she played the beautiful Aelis in the Lena Dunham-directed medieval romp. The ‘rage and emotion’ has stayed in the performance. And then I got told a couple of days later that I had got the part, which was so lovely and crazy.’ ‘But I think I channelled that rage and emotion into what I was doing. That was terrible”,’ says the Edinburgh-born actor, her breezy, care-free self beginning to return. ‘I came out of the audition thinking, “Oh well. It is a bit like seeing double, except that one version is chatting with suppressed emotion and between sips of iced latte about her ordeal on the Tube. ![]() ![]() Without meaning to, the show’s co-star has sat under the poster for the show. We are sitting in the bar at London’s Almeida theatre where R&J is playing until the end of the month. Isis Hainsworth and Toheeb Jimoh as the star-crossed lovers (Picture: Marc Brenner) ![]()
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